Public disasters often cause many questions to be raised and fingers to be pointed. This most certainly holds true for the catastrophic explosion of Centralia Mine No. 5 on the afternoon of March 25, 1947, and the violent and untimely deaths of the 111 Centralia Coal Company miners. While many played a role in the unfolding of this tragic disaster, focus is repeatedly brought back to Driscoll Scanlan, an Illinois mine state inspector. Were there other courses of action he could have pursued in
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adamantly refusing to renew his contract, which enrages Stanley Shriner Hoff, his powerful studio boss. Castle wants to be free from the studio's grip on his life and career. Hoff and his right-hand man Smiley Coy have knowledge of a hit-and-run accident in which Castle was involved and threaten to use this information against him. Hoff is willing to do anything to make the actor sign a seven-year renewal. Castle's soul is tortured. He wants to win back his idealistic wife, who has been proposed
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Chilean Mine Collapse The events surrounding the collapse of the Chilean mine on the 5th of August 2010 captivated the entire planet. For 69 days, the world shared in the pain of the 33 miners, their families, and the country of Chile. The situation seemed so dire that many doubted if the miners would survive. At one point “miners in the area were already placing wooden crosses outside (the mine’s) entrance” (Yang, 2010). We all watched as so many attempts were made to reach the miners and
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Website Review and Summary: Black Lung Michelle Hampton HCS/457 January 30, 2012 Sally Kohls Website Review and Summary: Black Lung Pneumoconioses, also known as Black Lung is a group of interstitial lung diseases caused by the inhalation of certain dusts and lung tissue’s reaction to the dust (CDC, 2011). It has been noted that the cases of Black Lung are workplace related, and rarely environmental. Black Lung has been prevalent throughout hundreds of years; therefore, the material available
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Jialing, the state owned mine in Shanxi province, there were totally 261 miners underground before the accident. In order to catch the production schedule, dare to be the first, all miners worked hard at that moment. Even when someone reported that there was potential safety hazard in the mine, water penetration, the supervisor took little attention on it, still continued the project. When the accident happened, 108 miners had been lifting the shaft, and 153 workers were trapped in a coal mine, after
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Personal Reflection Paper #1 After taking the Character Strengths Survey, I discovered my top five strengths were: Hope, a sense of purpose, kindness, honesty and humor. Hope in a therapeutic setting is very essential in a sense that you are giving your client hope to see that tomorrow will be another day… a better day than the one before. It is guiding the client to see the light at the end of the tunnel; yes, you are an alcohol now but if you take these steps, follow through, you will soon overcome
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Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release Erroll Hooker BCOM 275 August 16, 2014 DR. Renee Green Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release We all know how important the use of good communication can calm the uncertainties of a wearisome person. It is vital that the audience the message is sent to can comprehend the information being provided. One must ensure that his thought process in the information shared with others will not lead to a misunderstanding. As
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John Bartlow Martin / The Blast in Centralia No. 5: A Mine Disaster No One Stopped Already the crowd had gathered. Cars clogged the short, black rock road from the highway to the mine, cars bearing curious spectators and relatives and friends of the men entombed. State troopers and deputy sheriffs and the prosecuting attorney came, and officials from the company, the Federal Bureau of Mines, the Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals. Ambulances ar- rived, and doctors and nurses and Red
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PIKE RIVER COAL MINE: THE DISASTER REPORT ON FAILURE OF THE PROJECT Prepared By: Atul Srivastava Stu ID- 14854045 05 Oct 2015 Table of Contents Executive Summery ………………………………………………………………………… 1. Introduction ………………………………………………………………………… 2. Methodology ………………………………………………………………………… 2.1 Factors contributed to project failure ………………………………………… 2.2 Failure of theories behind Pike tragedy ……………………………………… 3. Conclusion …………………………………………………………………………… References Executive Summery
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Forty-eight percent of kids age 12-17 have been in a car while the driver was texting. That’s almost half of the kids and teens in America that has been put in danger because of a text or a call. Texting while driving increases your chance of wrecking twenty-five times more and ten percent of that time you are usually out of your lane. Is a text or call really worth your life? Some people don’t think it’s a problem but in 2011 twenty-three percent of crashes were caused because of cell phones. “In
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